Thursday, February 18, 2010

First of all,we must be blog illiterate because this tagging thing was foreign to us until yesterday. Then, before you know it, we get hit from all sides with it. Holy Cow! Problem is this, if you are going to hit us with this Sunshine award, better send some sun with it instead of .... snowing sideways! (OK, OK, I got a little off track there...) Thanks to Julie, Maureen, and Tara for lavishing rays of sunshine upon us! I guess we're supposed to pass this lovely flower along to a few others who make our day sunny with their blogging, such as:

TrailZombie

Slomohusky

Pinkcorker

Meg Runs
Ace

Gotta Run Now (Tina)

HappyFeet 26.2 (Ginny)

Banff Trail Trash (Leslie)

Ted & Danni's Adventures

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In other non-tagging, non-bloggy award related news, got a nice "chase-away-the-winter-blues" care package in the mail this week. It seems the powers that be at Drymax happened upon our blog and saw my darling Kathleen cruising the trails at Cheyenne Mountain sporting their bright red winter socks.

It seems they had interest in using Kathleen's pic (much better choice than using mine!!), we had some emails back and forth and wouldn't you know - they surprised us with a nice collection of new socks to spruce up our "foot wardrobe"!! We discovered their socks about a year ago and really enjoy the fit and feel for running. If you have not tried Drymax, give their socks a shot - they are awesome!

Watching the Olympics and checking out NEW running gear, while the snow falls gently outside our window - nice! (Being a fellow naturally curly, Kathleen has been ooh'ing and aah'ing over Shaun White's flowing, curly locks!!!) Even got in a headlamp-powered 5 miler last night - woohoo on weeknight runs - can't wait for the time change - 24 days and counting... Happy Trails!

About Us

We love trail running and biking in the mountains of Colorado and the desert Southwest. We enjoy spending time together, seeing new places, and meeting people who enjoy the outdoors like we do! We were thrown a little bit of a curve ball in March 2011 when Kathleen was diagnosed with Graves Disease, an auto-immune thyroid disorder. After trying to treat the disease with an anti-thyroid drug for a year and not achieving the results we had hoped for, she had radio-active iodine treatment (RAI) in February 2012 and is now in "wait and see" mode. We hope to have her back up and heading toward normal function some time during the summer of 2012 and back to true Happy Trailing. It has caused a little change of pace (slower) and a bit of a temporary life 'detour'. This is new and unexpected territory so the journey should be interesting, challenging, and hopefully still fun!
'To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.'
Ecclesiastes 3:1

Graves Disease Foundation

Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can, To all the people you can, As long as ever you can.-John Wesley

We will miss our sweet girl, Sage

Dec 1997 - Jun 2010

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